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For those times when Skem9 goes down and we need a back-up plan....

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 1:04am

So we have these little badges and I think we could use them for fun member categories.

Any title suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 2:01am

B, WT wants a Facebook Cover generator. Would that be a project you would be up for?

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 2:36am

Recently it's been brought to our attention that this server is consistently under heavy load. This prompted us to investigate what is causing the issue, and it looks as though your site access logs are very large in size (38MB). After looking into them, they look to be nearly all requests such as this:

"GET /wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/css/skins/default/style.css?ver=2.3.5
"GET /wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/js/sexy-bookmarks-public.min.js?ver=4.0.6.5
"GET /wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/js/shareaholic-perf.min.js?ver=4.0.6.5
"GET /wp-content/plugins/wp-favorite-posts/wpfp.js?ver=3.3.1
"GET /wp-content/gd-star-rating/css/rating.css?ver=1.9.14
"GET /wp-content/plugins/alkivia/style.css?ver=0.10.4
"GET /wp-content/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/css/facebook-comments-widgets.css?ver=3.3.1
"GET /wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/js/gdsr.js?ver=1.9.14
"GET /wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/js/jquery.jcarousel.min.js?ver=2.3.5
"GET /wp-content/uploads/shareaholic/spritegen/shr-custom-sprite.css?ver=4.0.6.5
"GET /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.7.1
"POST /bbpress/bb-cron.php?doing_wp_cron
"POST /chat/index/userCount

Your apache user in particular is hitting the server and causing many CPU spikes every few seconds. It looks like your social networking plugins may be at fault here. Please investigate this and get back to us as to your plans on mitigating this issue or if you have any further questions regarding it. Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P. on March 15, 2012 at 4:33am

AnGella said:

B, WT wants a Facebook Cover generator. Would that be a project you would be up for?

What's involved in it? Is it just generation of CSS, or would it involve cropping up images to a certain size?

I've never used a Facebook cover or anything like that.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P. on March 15, 2012 at 4:40am

From my five minutes of looking around, it seems like they're just images cropped to 851px*315px. Is a generator really required for that?

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 4:45am

Brandon P. said:

AnGella said:
B, WT wants a Facebook Cover generator. Would that be a project you would be up for?

What's involved in it? Is it just generation of CSS, or would it involve cropping up images to a certain size?

I've never used a Facebook cover or anything like that.

Image cropping, adding text and borders I think is what he is looking for. At least the one he linked me to had those things.

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 4:47am

For people with no photo editing program? He was my second requester.

I think the image cropping and the text placement and the preview makes it easier for the masses who don't have our mad skillz.

Brandon P. said:

From my five minutes of looking around, it seems like they're just images cropped to 851px*315px. Is a generator really required for that?

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P. on March 15, 2012 at 5:02am

So what if we just customized a free PHP-based image editor so that it's based around Facebook covers?

https://github.com/asvinb/pixidou
I'm trying to get that one working on my server, but permissions chmod blah blah, but the UI is pretty cool and seems pretty easy to modify

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 6:14am

I am game for anything you think would do the trick. I wouldn't even know where to begin. lol

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 6:26am

So should I install all that or let you play with it first?

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on March 15, 2012 at 6:31am

Skemaholicsanonymous.com is ranked #885,599 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Approximately 50% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 407,849. Visitors to the site spend roughly 44 seconds on each pageview and a total of four minutes on the site during each visit. Approximately 54% of visits to Skemaholicsanonymous.com are bounces (one pageview only). Visitors to the site view 4.4 unique pages each day on average.

What does this mean? Is this good for a person who doesn't actively market?

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P. on March 15, 2012 at 6:49am

AnGella said:

So should I install all that or let you play with it first?

That's up to you. I'm gonna tinker with it a little, either way.

AnGella said:

Skemaholicsanonymous.com is ranked #885,599 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Approximately 50% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 407,849. Visitors to the site spend roughly 44 seconds on each pageview and a total of four minutes on the site during each visit. Approximately 54% of visits to Skemaholicsanonymous.com are bounces (one pageview only). Visitors to the site view 4.4 unique pages each day on average.

What does this mean? Is this good for a person who doesn't actively market?

I don't really have a metric to compare it to, so I don't know, but I just googled "ning themes" and this site is like #4, so that's pretty good.